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TODAY'S TOP DEVELOPMENTS Wednesday, July 27, 2016     Industry news, expert analysis, and daily updates on the most significant insurance coverage legal developments—from the insurance and legal experts of The National Underwriter Company.  CASE LAW Crime Material Misrepresentation on Application Dooms Loss Payee Bank’s Coverage for Theft by Insured’s Employees A federal district court in Connecticut has ruled that an insurer could properly rescind insurance policies as a matter of law where the insured had made a material misrepresentation in response to a question on the applications. Read More Life Insurance Michigan Entitled to 90 Percent of Life Insurance Proceeds Received by Inmate, Appeals Court Rules An appellate court in Michigan, reversing a trial court’s decision, has ruled that the state was entitled to 90 percent of the total life insurance proceeds received by an inmate following his grandmother’s death. Read More Professional Liability Insurance Coverage for Actions Against “Personal Genome Service” Provider Was Not Barred by Policy’s Contractual Liability Exclusion, California Court Decides The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that a contractual liability exclusion in a professional liability insurance policy issued to a company that provided a “personal genome service” to consumers did not preclude coverage for various legal and arbitration proceedings brought against the company. Read More Eye on the Experts Inclusive Communities One Year Later: What Does It Mean for Underwriting Policies and Procedures? This Eye on the Experts article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s Inclusive Communities decision, which held that plaintiffs may rely on a disparate impact theory to establish a violation of the Fair Housing Act (“FHA”). Over the course of the past year, a new landscape has started to emerge that presents real challenges for plaintiffs who attempt to employ disparate impact allegations within the broad framework outlined by the Inclusive Communities Court.  Read More View All Case Law Developments    LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY Federal Actions Superstorm Sandy Magistrate Judge’s District Court Nomination Remains in Limbo Nearly a year after U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Brown, one of three magistrate judges handling Superstorm Sandy cases in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, was nominated by President Obama for a seat on that district court, his nomination remains in limbo. Read More Health Insurance What 3 States Had to Say After Lawsuits Were Filed to Block Health Insurer Mergers What’s happening now that the U.S. Department of Justice and a number of state attorneys general have filed lawsuits to block Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana? Three states’ responses are notable. Read More View All Legislative/Regulatory Developments      INDUSTRY NEWS Ironshore Specialty Casualty Offers Third Party Product Recall Cost Endorsement  Read More Markel to Lead Lloyd’s Livestock Consortium  Read More Adelson, Testan Names Alison J. Schefer and Daniel J. Simpson as Partners in Fort Lauderdale  Read More Aspen Insurance Appoints Head of U.S. Crisis Management and Launches New U.S. Product Contamination/Recall Line  Read More Ryan Cantu Joins Kane Russell’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Group  Read More View All Industry News   Discussion Autonomous Vehicles Browse our entire library of over 2,500 insurance resources and forms.    INSURANCE COVERAGE  LAW REPORT View Entire Summer Insurance Coverage Law Report   View Insurance Coverage Law Report Archives   Steven A. Meyerowitz, ESQ. Director, FC&S Legal smeyerowitz@alm.com Victoria Prussen Spears, ESQ. Associate Director, FC&S Legal vspears@alm.com FC&S Legal Editorial Advisory Board Mitchell J. Auslander, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Carrie Cope, Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, P.C. Anjali C. Das, Wilson Elser John F. Finnegan, Chadbourne & Parke LLP Michele L. Jacobson, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Timothy P. Law, Reed Smith LLP Cort T. Malone, Anderson Kill, P.C. Richard D. Milone, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Joseph P. Monteleone, Rivkin Radler LLP Anne M. Murray, Rivkin Radler LLP Jerold Oshinsky, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP Seth B. Schafler, Proskauer Rose LLP Thomas F. Segalla, Goldberg Segalla David D. Thamann, The National Underwriter Company FC&S Daily Legal Report ($1,295 annual subscription) is included as part of your subscription to FC&S Legal: The Insurance Information Center. FC&S Daily Legal Report and The Insurance Coverage Law Report are publications of The National Underwriter Company. For more information, visit www.fcandslegal.com. 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